ClawMenu is one of those apps that you see and just want to give it a try. It offers you a way to supplement the Mac’s Finder with it’s own system for navigating your files and folders. Here’s a quick breakdown.
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to smooth out (mute) highlights in your portrait using some simple Photoshop techniques.
If you frequently get text message spam, you’ve no doubt considered sticking a pencil in your ear out of frustration. Before you soil a perfectly good pencil, take a look at OSXDaily’s excellent tutorial on how to block text message spam on your iPhone.
Sometimes I just don’t want to listen to music. I just want some nice ambient sound to wash over me while I’m working. I’ve reviewed Elsewhere for the Mac previously, a free app for OS X which lives in your menubar and provides three ambient sounds, plus rain (with an in-app purchase).
Today I point you to two more great apps, both free, that provide ambient sounds (white noise) to OS X and allow you to customize the relaxing sounds to your liking.
The Touchfire iPad Keyboard fits right over the iPad’s on-screen keyboard and is completely transparent, so you can always see the keys underneath it. When you type, the Touchfire keyboard responds with just the right amount of resistance and spring-back to feel like a lively and responsive keyboard.
If you use your iPad for emailing and writing, this look like a really cool thing to have!
Sina Nova: A beautiful serif font, free for practically any use (view the license for the minor restrictions).
If you thought Siri was a gimmicky feature of iOS, think again—you can do more than schedule an appointment, check game scores, and search the web.
Paul over at OSXDaily has posted a simple tutorial to show you how to use Siri to author a complete email without touching the keyboard on your iPhone.
The trickiest part of using Siri is remember the commands necessary to use Siri to do a ton of different things.
It’s always fun to look back on computing history, especially when Apple is the subject.
These 75 eCommerce icons are available in PNG format in two sizes (99×66 and 64×43), and are absolutely free for private and commercial use. A blank PSD is also included in the ZIP file.
For some odd reason Adobe removed the slider for the Transparency panel some time ago, and replaced it with a mostly useless drop-down menu of 10% increments. While many users certainly aren’t happy about this, they probably don’t know that you can adjust transparency more precisely than the drop-down menu allows using keyboard shortcuts.
